2013 State of the State Addresses Education-Related Proposals by Issue

The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2013 state of the state addresses. To assure that this information reaches you in a timely manner, minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) or format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the state. Accountability 7 Accountability--Reporting Results 2 Accountability--Rewards 2 Accountability--School Improvement 3 Assessment--High Stakes/Competency 1 At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) 6 Attendance 1 Bilingual/ESL 1 Business Involvement 2 Career/Technical Education 4 Choice of Schools 3 Choice of Schools--Charter Schools 7 Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment 2 Choice of Schools--Tax Credits 1 Choice of Schools--Vouchers 3 Civic Education 2 Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language 1 Curriculum--Mathematics 1 Economic/Workforce Development 18 Finance 21 Finance--Facilities 3 Finance--Federal 1 Finance--Funding Formulas 1 Finance--Lotteries 1 Finance--Performance Funding 1 Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures 6 Finance--Taxes/Revenues 3 Governance 3 Health 2 Health--Mental Health 1 High School 3 High School--College Readiness 3 High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates 1 High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment 2 High School--Exit Exams 1 High School--Graduation Requirements 1 Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools 1 Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning 2 P-16 or P-20 1 P-3 4 P-3 Kindergarten 3 P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten 2 P-3 Preschool 14 Alabama Governor Robert Bentley's State of the State Address PROPOSALS Finance -- Continue to fund the Reading Initiative, AMSTI, Distant Learning and Advanced Placement. P-3 - Preschool -- Increase funding and expansion of voluntary Pre-K programs.  Administered by the Office of School Readiness, local, voluntary Pre-K programs may apply for grants but will be required to meet certain criteria.  School Improvement -- Address and turn around chronically failing schools. School Safety -- Develop a strategic plan for preventing and responding to incidents of active shooters.  Teacher Compensation -- Offer a two-and-a-half percent pay raise for teachers and support personnel. ACCOMPLISHMENT Economic/Workforce Development -- Launched a statewide effort to bring education and business together so our workforce will not only be well-trained, but also highly skilled by creating the College and Career Ready Task Force.  P-3 - Preschool -- Alabama's Voluntary Pre-K program once again is ranked Number One in the nation by the National Institute for Early Education Research. Teacher Issues -- Formed a Teacher Cabinet.   Full Text: http://www.governor.alabama.gov/news/news_detail.aspx?ID=7528 Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper's State of the State Address PROPOSALS Finance -- Fund education above inflation and enrollment. Finance - Funding Formula -- Ensure that there is a school finance formula that offers equity to all districts. P-3 - Preschool/Kindergarten -- Serve up to 6,500 new kindergartners and preschoolers. Postsecondary - Finance -- Adopt a need-based financial allocation process to support Coloradans with the highest need and incentivizes retention and timely completion. Teacher Preparation -- Continue to build the best educator pipeline in the country and attract the best and brightest people to enter teaching. Teacher Retention -- Find new ways to retain and reward current teachers. ACCOMPLISHMENTS P-3 - Reading/Literacy -- Passed an early childhood literacy program (The Read Act) which identifies struggling readers early and provides interventions so that all children can read by the end of third grade. Finance - Federal -- Received a $29.9 million "Race to the Top" grant to support early childhood education and enhance early literacy. Full Text: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=GovHickenlooper%2FCBONLayout&cid=1251638211880&pagename=CBONWrapper Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy's State of the State Address PROPOSALS School Improvement -- Continue to transform low-performing schools through the Commissioner's Network - through intensive intervention, increased instruction time, and improved collaboration among teachers and administrators. State Policymaking - Task Forces/Commissions -- Create the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission to make specific, actionable recommendations in the areas of school safety, mental health services, and gun violence prevention. Teacher Quality -- Dedicate new resources to support teachers. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Finance -- Invested nearly $100 million in pre-k through high school, focusing on districts most in need. P-3 - Preschool -- Created 1,000 new school readiness openings statewide (seats for 1,000 more children). School Improvement -- Transformed four low-performing schools through the Commissioner's Network through intensive intervention, increased instruction time, and improved collaboration among teachers and administrators. Full Text: http://www.governor.ct.gov/malloy/cwp/view.asp?Q=516548&A=11 District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C. Gray's 2013 State of the District Address PROPOSALS Accountability -- Clarify roles, responsibilities and expectations of both traditional and public charter schools and develop a citywide vision and roadmap for public education to: - Empower families to understand and access all aspects of our education system; - Promote equity across our education sectors so that all children, regardless of which school they attend, have the resources they need to succeed; - Plan across our education sectors in a way that ensures access to quality educational seats in every neighborhood; and - Develop a transparent way to hold District government leaders and their education partners accountable for these outcomes. Economic/Workforce Development -- Bring DC Workforce Intermediary online this spring. The intermediary will make direct connections between employers in our construction, retail and hospitality industries who have jobs to offer and qualified District residents who need them. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Economic/Workforce Development -- Revitalized the Workforce Investment Council with a broad array of experts from the public, private and non-profit sectors. Facilities -- Invested heavily in the modernization of our schools and built a number of brand new schools. P-3 Access -- Continued to make investments in early-childhood education, including opening a major Educare facility in Ward 7 last year. The District is now the first city in America where there are enough seats in publicly-supported early-childhood-education programs for all three- and four-year-olds. Special Education -- Built the capacity of public schools to serve the educational needs of children with disabilities which reduced the number of these students placed in private schools by 40 percent. Full Text: http://mayor.dc.gov/release/text-prepared-delivery-mayor-vincent-c-grays-2013-state-district-address Georgia Governor Nathan Deal's 2013 State of the State Address PROPOSALS P-3 -- Fund 10 days additional pre-K days in the 2014 school year (doing so also increases salaries). Finance -- Provide $156M in additional funding for enrollment growth in K-12 schools in FY2013.  For next year [2014], there will be $147 million for enrollment growth and salary increases for teachers based on training and experience. There is also an additional $41 million to fully fund the revised Equalization formulas adopted last year. -- Change the 1985 funding formula to modernize the way we spend tax payer dollars so that we can produce more positive results in our public schools. Governance and Accountability -- Use legislation to solve the problem of Georgia having too many school boards placed under the sanctions of potential loss of accreditation. While this is a very serious matter, it is somewhat ironic that the loss of accreditation can only be based on governance issues and not on substandard academic progress of the school system. Reading/Literacy -- Include $1.6 million in this year's budget to continue the reading mentor program. Economic/Workforce Development -- Focus more funds within our HOPE Grant Program toward occupations where we know jobs are available and shortages actually exist. Currently, there are several thousand jobs available for individuals with a commercial driver's license. There are similar shortages in the areas of nursing and early childhood education. In order to fill these vacancies we suggest directing additional funds within our Technical College HOPE Grants so that over 90 percent of the tuition costs in these programs will be provided. Postsecondary --Increase the Hope Scholarship by 3% over last year, bringing the total funds going to Hope in FY 2014 to nearly $600 million -- Fully consider the Higher Education Funding Commission's recommendation for change from enrollment-based funding to outcomes-based funding in our university and technical colleges. ACCOMPLISHMENTS P-3 -- Designated by the National Institute for Early Education Research as having 10 out of 10 in measures of quality. Georgia was one of only five states to receive such a designation. Reading/Literacy -- Focused on literacy by designating $1.6M to establish a reading mentor's program that was designed to grow the percentage of Georgia's children who are reading on grade level by the 3rd grade. Full text: http://gov.georgia.gov/press-releases/2013-01-17/deal-focus-foundations-strengthen-georgia   Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie's 2013 State of the State Address PROPOSALS Digital Learning -- Advocate for a significant investment and commitment to support the DOE and BOE's Digital Materials Initiative to provide students with learning opportunities for the 21st century. Within the next three years, provide each of our public school students with current curricular materials on a digital device, such as a tablet or laptop. This initiative takes advantage of new technology for learning and the state's broadband infrastructure.Having students with curriculum materials on a digital device solves the problem of not having enough textbooks or obsolete textbooks. Finance -- Convene community meetings to solicit public input and feedback for the 21st Century Schools initiative--a public-private partnership that allows the Department of Education to lease underutilized lands for the purpose of generating income to be used to upgrade existing schools or construct new schools. Teachers, administrators, students, parents, community residents and other stakeholders will be included in the community meetings. P-3 -- Ensure all Hawaii's four-year-olds are healthy, socially developed, and cognitively prepared to learn and succeed on day one of kindergarten. -- Include $32.5 million for the Executive Office on Early Learning in the biennium budget for a school readiness program. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Finance -- As a result of our collaborative efforts, shared sacrifice and judicious administrative action, the year-end general fund balances for FY 2011 was $126 million, and for FY 2012 $275 million. For this year, which ends in approximately 5 months, we are again looking at a healthy positive balance. Student Achievement -- ­ Students demonstrated unprecedented gains in student achievement. Hawaii was the only state to show gains across the board in every subject and grade level. Full text: http://governor.hawaii.gov/2013-state-of-the-state/ Indiana Governor Michael R. Pence's State of the State Address PROPOSALS P-3 - Full-day kindergarten -- Increase funding for full day kindergarten. Pensions -- Fully fund teacher pensions each of the next two years. Postsecondary/Workforce Development -- Create a partnership with Indiana's life sciences industry and the universities, to spur research and produce high-paying jobs. Finance/Accountability -- Increase in funding for schools each of the next two years, with the second year based on school performance. Teacher Pay-for-Performance -- Invest $6 million in teacher excellence grants to increase pay for our high-performing teachers. Reading/Literacy -- Ensure that every third grader can read, Dropout Prevention -- Invest in highly successful dropout prevention programs like Jobs for America's Graduates. P-3 - Preschool -- Continue to expand educational opportunities, especially for those with the fewest resources, beginning with pre-K education. Expand incentives for Hoosiers to support innovative, community-driven pre-K effort for low-income children. School Choice -- Expand tuition tax deductions, removing the prior year requirement and lift means testing for foster, adopted, special needs and military families. Postsecondary - Performance Funding -- Increase funding to our state-sponsored colleges and universities and tie funding and financial aid to on-time completion. Career/Technical -- Make career, technical and vocational education a priority in every high school in Indiana. -- Create Regional Works Councils to work with business and educators across the state to develop regional, demand-driven curricula to bring high-paying career options to more Hoosiers in high school. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Accountability -- 207 schools received the highest school ranking for the first time. Forty-three schools moved up three letter grades. Twenty-eight schools moved from the lowest ranking to a mid-ranking. Full Text: http://www.in.gov/gov/2013stateofstate.htm Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear's State of the State Address PROPOSALS Compulsory School Age -- Phase in an increase in the mandatory school age from 16 to 18, unless a student graduates earlier. P-3 Preschool/Full-Day Kindergarten -- Start looking at fully funding all-day kindergarten and expanding preschool to reach more 3- and 4-year-olds. Postsecondary -- Approve a proposal to let the public universities self-fund building projects on their campuses. The universities are seeking authorization for six schools to issue bonds worth $363 million for 11 projects – including classrooms, residential halls and student activity space. ACCOMPLISHMENTS School Improvement -- Education Week, in its annual "Quality Counts" assessment of public schools, ranked Kentucky No. 10 in the country for school achievement and progress – up from 34th just two years ago. Full Text: http://governor.ky.gov/Speeches/20130206_SOTC.pdf Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick's State of the Commonwealth Address PROPOSALS Extended Instructional Time -- Ensure that every middle school child in every Gateway City has a longer school day, filled with enrichment programs, service learning, art, exercise and music. Finance -- Once again fund K-12 education higher than we did last year -- Place a greater reliance on the income tax and less reliance on the sales tax (cut the sales tax from the current rate of 6.25 percent to 4.5 percent and dedicate all of the proceeds to a public works fund in support of transportation, school building fund, other public works) -- To support our education initiatives, increase the income tax by 1% -- to 6.25%. To make that increase fair to all according to their ability to pay, double the personal exemptions for every taxpayer and eliminate a number of itemized deductions.  P-3 -- Ensure that every child in Massachusetts has access to high quality early education. Postsecondary -- Raise our investment in public colleges and universities, and reinvigorate the MassGrants scholarship program. ACCOMPLISHMENTS -- Introduced new accountability and flexibility to our schools -- Saved the Commonwealth over 11 billion dollars so far, which in turn has enabled us to invest in education, innovation and infrastructure. Full text: http://www.mass.gov/governor/pressoffice/speeches/0116-state-of-the-commonwealth.html Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's State of the State Address PROPOSALS Health -- Add another 90-some thousand recipients dental coverage through the Healthy Kids Dental program P-3 - Preschool -- Make a major budget commitment to get as many kids as possible into the Great Start Early Childhood program (29,000 students currently eligible). State Policymaking/Workforce Development -- Hold a state-wide Education Summit in April with a focus on future employment needs are and future career opportunities, and have a great discussion about how to do a better job on supplying the talent. Student Supports - Counseling -- Extend Pathways to Potential program to 135 schools. Sending social worker's (calling them Success Coaches) out to work in 21 local public elementary schools in the cities with the highest crime and the biggest challenges to support students. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Accountability - School Improvement -- Created the Educational Achievement Authority which took 15 schools that were among the most persistently failing and put them into a system of schools, not a school district, but a system of schools to put the most resources possible in the classroom. Extended the school day and school year, offered three meals a day, and used a student centered learning model where the students are driving their own educational growth. In EAA there is no such thing as failing a grade; there is only a question of how long it takes you to master a level. The Gates Foundation gave the program one of their Break Through Awards for innovation in education. Autism -- Passed legislation that put evidenced-based systems in place that can materially improve the quality of life for autistic children. Civic Engagement -- Initiated the Summer Youth Initiative whereby young people were put to work in foremost challenged communities. Health -- Offered dental coverage to over 440,000 people in Michigan through the Healthy Kids Dental program. Student Supports -- Implemented Pathways to Potential program. Sending social worker's (calling them Success Coaches) out to work in 21 local public elementary schools in the cities with the highest crime and the biggest challenges to support students. Full Text: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2013-2014/Journal/house/pdf/2013-HJ-01-16-002.pdf Missouri Governor Jay Nixon's State of the State Address PROPOSALS Economic/Workforce Development -- Increase funding for workforce training that's custom-tailored to the needs of Missouri employers. Finance -- Increase funding for education by $150 million. -That's $17 million more for early childhood education. -That's $34 million more for higher education. -And that's $100 million more for our K-12 classrooms. -- Issue bonds that will allow the state to establish a permanent, low-interest loan fund dedicated to improving local schools.  -- Create the BOOST (Building Opportunities in Our Schools Today) Fund for investment in first-rate, 21st Century facilities: state-of- the art computers and science labs, libraries and wired classrooms.  P-3 - Preschool -- Double funding for the Missouri Preschool Program and put more money into programs like Early Head Start. Postsecondary Affordability -- Invest $75 million for Access and Bright Flight scholarships and for A+ scholarships, which cover tuition and fees at all our public community colleges.  -- Expand A+ scholarship program to every public high school in the state. Postsecondary Completion -- Help adult students finish their degrees on-line, from an accredited university that's putting down new roots in Missouri. Postsecondary Facilities -- Provide funds for cutting-edge university research facilities in areas critical to our competitiveness, such as engineering, math, and science with targeted bond issuance. Postsecondary Finance -- Tie new funding to specific performance goals - like increased student retention, higher graduation rates and improved learning. School Schedule -- Lengthen the school year (extend by 6 days). Teacher Training -- Invest in training more teachers Technology -- Invest in modern equipment. ACCOMPLISHMENT Graduation Rates -- High school graduation rate is now the seventh-highest in the nation. Postsecondary Affordability -- Expanded the A+ program to 150 more schools. Economic/Workforce Development -- Dramatically increased Missouri's investment in worker training, helping 150,000 Missouri workers sharpen their skills and get better jobs in their field. Full Text: http://governor.mo.gov/newsroom/2013/Gov_Nixon_delivers_2013_State_of_the_Address Montana Montana Governor Steve Bullock's 2013 State of the State Address PROPOSALS Finance -- Return the profits from the Lottery to the public schools they were intended to support. Finance - Investing in Facilities -- Enact the J.O.B.S. Bill, which stands for Jobs and Opportunity by Building Schools - Take advantage of historically low interest rates and immediately create thousands by making investments in educational facilities. High School and Dual Enrollment -- Commit additional funding for the Jobs for Montana's Graduates program. The graduation rate for at-risk teens involved in this program is 98%. -- Help the two-year colleges expand and enhance dual credit programs for high school students. Postsecondary Access -- Create a universal enrollment system. -- Freeze tuition across the university system. -- Invest in the university system and make certain that veterans are provided with the services and the space they need including wrap- around services that will reintegrate the veterans back into civilian life and on college campuses. Postsecondary Completion -- Increase the number of Montana adults with a post-secondary degree or professional certificate to at least 60% over the next decade. P-3 -- Expand the proven "Stars to Quality Program." Create 100 more high-quality early childhood programs and get 600 more families and 1,000 more children ready for school, annually. Technology -- Use state resources to help school districts modernize and acquire technology. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Student Achievement -- Montana 8th graders outperform every other state in the nation in reading and math, and are second in science. -- High School graduation rates are up and dropout rates are down. -- Increased the rate at which Montana residents are getting college degrees - faster than any other state in the nation. Full Text: http://governor.mt.gov/docs/STATE_OF_THE_STATE-media_release_013013.pdf Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval's 2013 State of the State Address PROPOSALS Choice -- Provide more choice of schools by giving businesses a tax credit for making contributions to a scholarship fund (an opportunity scholarship). These dollars will be distributed, on a means-tested basis, to students at low-performing schools for use in attending the school of their choice. English Language Learners -- Invest $14 million in an English Language Learners initiative. Finance -- Provide more support for autism and early intervention services -- Overall, make a new investment of $135 million in Nevada's schoolchildren. P-3 -- For pre-Three students, increase funding for early education in the state's most at risk schools. -- Aggressively expand all-day kindergarten among the state's most at-risk schools -- Allocate 20 million dollars over the biennium for this purpose. High School -- Fund the JAG program (Jobs for America's Graduates) to include up to 50 additional high schools by 2014 and to serve nearly 2,000 additional high school students. State Longitudinal Data System -- Fund a data system that links student performance to teacher effectiveness. This system is a long term investment in what will be the backbone of our approach to teacher evaluation. Teaching Quality -- Make a new investment in Teach for America to help recruit, train, develop, and place top teacher and leadership talent in Nevada. Postsecondary -- With the Chancellor's support, create new courses of study at UNR and UNLV focused specifically on the sectors targeted for economic growth -- Establish UNLV as the global intellectual hub for gaming, hospitality and entertainment -- Pair community colleges more closely with workforce needs so that they can deliver students into jobs that will be waiting for them in the new economy -- Support and extend the Kenny C. Guinn Millennium Scholarship through 2017 -- Financially support the University Cooperative Extension program in rural Nevada. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Governance -- Reinvigorated the State Board of Education. Teaching Quality -- Required performance-based evaluations for teachers -- ending teacher tenure as we know it. Full text: http://gov.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/govnvgov/Content/2013StateOfTheState.pdf Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin's Second Inaugural Address PROPOSALS Career Readiness -- Focus the education of children - from grade school through college - on career readiness. -- Encourage schools to develop Personal Learning Plans that travel with each student from elementary through their senior year. These plans would help guide each student's education and also tie educational goals to career opportunities, making school more relevant. The key to this proposal is to increase our students' individual options while fostering a connection between school and career.    Health, At-Risk Students --Cover the shortfall left by the federal government, and makes free lunch available for all low-income students, including those who are currently only eligible for reduced prices. Whenever possible, these lunches should be made from local Vermont farm grown food, since we know that Vermont farmers grow the healthiest food in the nation. Mathematics -- Require that all 9th graders take algebra and all 10th graders take geometry. Dual Enrollment and Early College -- Over the past five years, state funding has provided limited access to Vermont high school students to get a head start on gaining expensive college credit by enrolling in for-credit college courses while they are in high school. Doubling the funding to expand access to all Vermont students. -- Authorize an early college initiative aimed at expanding (from 40) the number of students who simultaneously complete their senior year of high school with their first year of college. P-3 -- Strengthen commitment to funding universal early childhood education.  -- Make the largest single investment in early childhood education in Vermont's history. Redirect $17 million from the state's Earned Income Tax Credit to make high quality childcare affordable to hardworking lower-income Vermonters.  -- Ensure financial support to communities that initiate publicly funded preschool programs where they do not now exist. Provide resources for first year start up costs, after which communities offering pre-school programs will be eligible for reimbursement through the education fund. -- Invite all early childhood stakeholders to a summit to build and embrace our vision for the success of our children and their families. -- Direct the Agency of Human Services to implement an integrated plan for health promotion and prevention, beginning before birth, to ensure that all children reach their full potential. -- Do more to ensure that all our children are healthy and prepared to learn by providing pediatric, psychological, dental, nutrition and pre-school services on site.    Postsecondary Participation and Economic Development -- Address affordability with new vigor, particularly for those students who pursue degrees in the disciplines of the new economy. -- Initiate the Vermont Strong Scholars Program. It's a simple program, and here's how it works: if you enroll in any public institution of higher education in the state of Vermont and graduate with a degree in a STEM field, we will give you a helping hand to stay and work in Vermont by paying you back, over the course of five years, for your final year of tuition. Or if you graduate with an Associate's Degree in a STEM field, we will pay you back over three years for your final semester of tuition. -- Increase the state's appropriation for the Vermont State Colleges, VSAC, and UVM by three percent, to be used entirely for financial aid and scholarships for Vermonters.   -- Identify savings to guarantee affordability for students and their families and the survival of UVM and our State Colleges. -- Implement the eleven recommendations of the group I appointed last year to find ways to strengthen UVM and the State Colleges.   -- Utilize the 17 career and technical education centers around the state that provide opportunities for students and adults who need to update skills to advance their earning power. Use the centers as the foundation for Vermont Innovation Zones throughout the state. Our current funding system does not encourage centers to match the needs of regional employers.  These Innovation Zones will focus on areas of education and professional opportunity that fit the needs of their region. high schools and tech centers in the Kingdom would become an Innovation Zone and would be able to shift current generic course requirements to focus on those that provide the training the region needs. For example, the Kingdom may choose to focus heavily on engineering, hospitality, and health care courses that would result in Kingdom jobs for Kingdom kids.    Business Involvement --Call on employers to engage with the educational system at all levels. Open your businesses to our schools. Let our students interact with your employees, so they can see how they use their education every day.  Invite teachers and guidance councilors in to experience a deeper understanding of what their students need to succeed.  Engage high school and college interns. And provide opportunities for your employees to go back and further their education. ACCOMPLISHMENTS --N/A Parent/Family 1 Postsecondary 5 Postsecondary Affordability 4 Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid 6 Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees 3 Postsecondary Finance 9 Postsecondary Finance--Efficiency/Performance-Based Funding 6 Postsecondary Finance--Facilities 1 Postsecondary Institutions 1 Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges 1 Postsecondary Online Instruction 1 Postsecondary Participation--Access 3 Postsecondary Success--Completion 4 Postsecondary Success--Developmental/Remediation 1 Reading/Literacy 10 Scheduling/School Calendar 1 Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs 1 School Safety 8 Service-Learning 1 Special Education 4 Special Populations 1 Special Populations--Military 3 Standards 1 State Longitudinal Data Systems 1 State Policymaking 4 State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions 5 STEM 4 Student Achievement 4 Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance 1 Teaching Quality 5 Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative 1 Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay 5 Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance 6 Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits 3 Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness 5 Teaching Quality--Preparation 3 Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention 6 Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract 2 Technology 4 Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware 1 Youth Engagement 1 285